Vincent, the basket maker

There was a time when every village had its basket maker. With wicker, rush or Provençal cane, he made the baskets everyone needed, from the market to the harvest. His presence in the Nativity scene reminds us that santons are first and foremost portraits of the simple people of Provence and their trades.

Our Vincent the basket maker also comes in 2 cm, in our miniature collection. This scale lets you create an entire village in very little space: on a shelf, in a niche, inside a box or under a glass dome. Smaller than a finger joint, he nonetheless requires the same care as a large santon.

He is molded in clay from a model sculpted by hand, then fettled and smoothed one by one. After drying and firing, our painters work with a very fine brush to apply each color without going over the edges. It is a skill the Fouque family has cultivated since Jean-Baptiste Fouque founded the workshop in 1934.

The whole miniature collection can be seen in our shop-workshop in Aix-en-Provence. The little santons are wrapped one by one in paper, then bubble wrap; your order ships within 2 to 3 business days.